On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Guys > > I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music stored in > WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not possible to copy > many of these huge files to a portable player, so they need to be > compressed. After much experimentation I've concluded that OGG and WMA are > both better formats for sound quality than MP3 at a given bit rate. The > trouble is that neither of my portable players will play OGG, so it has to > be WMA. > > Using the command "ffmpeg -i input.wav -ab 128k output.wma" I get a WMA file > which will sound great on Linux using players such as VLC, Exaile and > Rhythmbox. Unfortunately on both my portable players I get "File Error". > I've even tried playing files converted this way on XP using WMP, and got > similar results. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on an ffmpeg parameter that will solve the > problem, or know of an alternative Linux app that will convert the files > correctly?
WMA is a Microsoft proprietary format. I wouldn't expect much help with it here & personally I'd say don't use it. The non-compressed audio format of choice for audiophiles is FLAC, I believe. (Personally, I'm perfectly happy with high-bitrate MP3 but I'm no connoisseur.) If your players won't play it, you're probably better off either changing players or seeing if you can reFlash them with something like Rockbox. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
